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Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative award recipients. Six teams and 15 researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were recipients. Mriganka Sur, principal investigator at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Paul E. Newton Professor of Neuroscience in MIT’s Department of Brain and […]

Six MIT projects, including 4 at McGovern, to receive BRAIN funding.

Ancient mutation may be key to humans’ unique abilities with speech.

Somewhere nearby, most likely, sits a coffee mug. Give it a glance. An image of that mug travels from desktop to retina and into the brain, where it is processed, categorized and recognized, within a fraction of a second. All this feels effortless to us, but programming a computer to do the same reveals just […]